Daily Yellowstone journal., 1887-10-27
LIVING ON A DIME A DAY.
It Can be Done, and Perhaps 1t Would
be Better IL More People Did 1t.

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"How to Live and Thrive on Dime
per Day" may stand as the text for this
talk. 1t certainly can be done and,
though the experiment may be uninyiting,
it is certain that good health is nearer
akin to the simplest diet than 10 the
costliest.
Now as to the laboring man and his
proteine. Tell him that three-fouths Of
his weight is water and that TO restore
the days waste he has to take food, three
fourths Of which must be water and the
remainder flesh forming, heat giving and
bone making substances, and he will
understand the case better. Give him q
table Of food, analyzed to show just how
much heat giving, flesh forming and
mineral matter there is in each food and
he will soon take as deep an interest in
what he eats because of its worth TO him
as because of its taste. When he finds
out, as he can in half an hour, that only
twenty'four parts in every 100 of butch
er's meat count as flesh formers, the rest
being water, but that from seventy-tiye
to nin'ty parts out of every 100 in dried
peas, beans. oat and wheat meals and
cheese are nutritious and only ten to
twenty-five parts waste water. he from
that moment begins to Use his common
sense in feeding as he does in earning his
living, The popular rule is never pay
any heed to the feeding value of our diet;
let us cultivate glorious ignorance Of
the purpose of foods. and 60 in might and
main for palate ticklers and devil take
the dyspepsia. Pity he doesn't.
just fact or two as appeti2ers. The
great Peninsuar and Oriental steamship
company employ East Indian coolies to
do the hardest work ON their steamers
because they are stronger, healthier and
stand the climate better than English
men. and hccauSe-not being meat eaters
their diet costs onIS six cents per day.
There are miners in the English coal pits,
the hardest workers in the land who
have not eaten any kind of meat for
years. am not n vegetarian, yet eX-
perimentcd for one whole year without
tasting tl,~h or gravy in amy form. and
all the time my health was perfect and
my weight increased. The dock porters
of Consumtnuplr carry heavier burdens,
$50 pounds aud upward, more easily
than th' Grhorr, Of England or America,
yet their main diet is Tread aud figs, and
yet they Grr toUtulal and vegetarian. The
laborer, in spain live chiefly on bread
and onions and are maryuluusly strong.
knrw nn eminent lady who. for forty
year,. lrld never tasted meat. She was
a marvel Of mental and physical strength.
AnoIlur author friend kept his health
and his average weight of 1G0 pounds on
diet that never included meat. the
average cost uf his food being only six
cents ter day. Another. a well known
literary man who looked as beefy as a
butcher. was. when last | met him. in
his eighth year Of strict abstinence from
flesh. Another friend, hard literary
worker. las been practically a life long
vegetarian. hut he looks too shriyeled up
TO In a champion specimen.
What would he good diet for those
who do not need TO study their purses
yet who would like simple, healthy and
enjoyable dietary: To such would say
drop the heavy meat breakfast right
away. Not that meat is bad. but il is not
the best TO start the day on. Ii distends
the stomach, indisposes us for headwork
and often leads TO that other downright
mischievous stupidity, the IL O'Clock
beer or cocktail. The second evil is taken
10 cure the first, as if two black eyes are
better than one. Bread mot the spoiled
white stuff, but the natural dark colored
wheat as groundD. tea or cocoa, eggs and
the hundred and one non-flesh dishes,
with a little fish and as much fruit as you
like. That's model meal, as experience
will prove.
Talking Of fish. the more the better.
Pound for pound it is as nutritious as
/ flesh, though it doesn't seem TO fill us SC
fully. and its chemical value is far above
that Of meats. When have extra hard
brain work to do, say an average of
twelve or fourteen hours for two or three
weeks at a stretch, knock off meats en-
tirely and eat all the fish can. Result.
perfect health and strength and no head
aches.
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For dinner, fish, soups II am not ex.
Guiding meat. though soups can he made
without il that taste just the same and
are quite as good every way. puddings,
dessert. II any one cares to prove foi
himself how little the flesh dishes on his
dinner table are necessary TO him, LEI
him just reverse the courses. beginning
with the fruit, then cheese and crackers
the puddings, etc. | warrant he will
turn up his nose at the meat when hc
comes to it, and he won't miss it the
least.
A horse is almost as strong, swift
healthy and handsome as a two-leggeC
man, and they both have the same inter
nal machinery; the one eats beef and en-
joys dyspepsia, the other avoids it and
flourshes. Ten cents worth of wheat
oatmeal. rice, fruit, buttermilk, bread
cheese, onions or portions Of several o.
these will enable a man TO do his or
dinary days work at least as well as any
other assortment Of food he can buy fol
$1.-Richmond (Va.) Dispatch.